Professor Nadja Alexander is a conflict specialist, conflict coach and mediator. Nadja has worked in conflict management settings in more than 30 countries across Europe, Australia, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and North America.

As a Principal of Conflict Coaching International, Nadja is engaged in conflict management consultancy worldwide including for international organisations such as the World Bank Group. She holds university appointments in Australia and the United States where she teaches Conflict Coaching.

Prof. Alexander is known for the determination, energy and creativity she brings to her work. She is an accredited conflict management professional in various jurisdictions including Singapore (SIMC), Hong Kong (HKMAAL), Australia (RI, MSB) and Samoa (AMSA). Nadja is listed in the International Who’s Who of Commercial Mediation and practises in the English and German languages. Her areas of coaching and mediation practice comprise executive, workplace, commercial, intergovernmental, interpersonal and cross-cultural conflict situations.

Nadja is both a multi-award winning writer (2007, 2011 New York) and trainer (1994, 1995, 1996 Queensland and 1997 Australia). She has been been named one of Australia’s top five law academics by Business Woman Magazine. She has published more than 10 books and 100 papers on conflict management topics and her work has appeared in the English, German, Russian, French, Dutch and Chinese languages.

Nadja is editor of the international book series, Global Trends in Dispute Resolution and co-editor of Tán Pàn the Chinese-English Journal on Negotiation and the Kluwer Mediation Blog. Her major legal work, International Comparative Mediation: Legal Perspectives, won the CPR Award for Outstanding ADR book (New York 2011).

As a recognised thought leader in conflict management, Prof. Alexander plays an international leadership role through her consulting and research and its application to practice and policy making. Her research has been used in the preparation of arguments before the Canadian Supreme Court, international arbitral awards, and mediation legislation in Hong Kong, Singapore, Samoa, Vietnam, Germany and other jurisdictions.

Prof. Alexander has been appointed to the Board of the Singapore International Mediation Institute, the Hong Kong Mediation Steering Committee, the Standards Commission of the International Mediation Institute, and the Advisory Board of the Indian International ADR Association (IIAA).
Nadja is passionate about conflict coaching and mediation as ways to help people move constructively through disputes, problems and difficult situations to achieve sustainable solutions.